Ida B. Wells

The Red Record

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A shocking and powerful account of lynching written by activist, journalist, and former slave Ida B. Wells In the postbellum American South, lynching was a frightfully common occurrence, perpetrated so frequently that most Southern politicians and leaders turned a blind eye to the practice. This vicious form of vigilante justice was in truth a thinly veiled racist justification for murderous violence. In 1892 alone, more than two hundred African Americans were lynched, with alleged offenses ranging from attempted stock poisoning to insulting whites. The Red Record tabulates these scenes of brutality in clear, objective statistics, allowing th… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-5040-1730-5
EAN: 9781504017305
Produktnummer: 19296484
Verlag: Open Road Media
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 112 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'464 KB

Über den Autor

Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) was an African American journalist, activist, suffragist, and civil rights leader. Born a slave, Wells was freed, along with her parents, by Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. After being orphaned at age fourteen, she put herself through college while caring for her five siblings. Outraged by the prevalence of lynching, Wells wrote several pieces of investigative journalism that exposed the violent hypocrisy running rampant in the American South. Throughout her life, she fought tirelessly for justice and equality for African Americans.